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vijay rupani

Vijay Ramniklal Rupani is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is the incumbent chief minister of Gujarat since August 7, 2016 and a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly representing Rajkot West. Vijay Rupani is partner in a trading firm Rasiklal & Sons, started by his father. He was inducted as minister in the first cabinet expansion by former Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel in November 2014 and held the ministry of transport, water supply, labor and employment. He was the BJP state president from February 2016 to August 2016.

Taking forward the practice started by Narendra Modi of auctioning gift items received by him as chief minister, articles received by Vijay Rupani during his term in office of one year were also auctioned in September 2017 in Surat.

After the state’s Assembly Elections in 2017, Rupani won from the Rajkot West constituency. On December 26, 2017 he took oath as the Gujarat Chief Minister in state capital Gandhinagar in a grand ceremony.

Rupani's new cabinet will have six ministers from other backward castes (OBC), six Patels or Patidars, three tribals, two Rajputs and a Dalit, Brahmin and Jain minister each.